No 1294 of Living Life Series 1
How to live life is what religion is all about. Religion is all about how to live and not about giving up life. It is about learning how to do this in a temple and applying this in the life outside the temple.
It is not about doing in a temple what we have been doing outside a temple. It is about creating peace by not feeding the needs of the ego and have no peace. It is not about controlling a temple so that others cannot have a say.
But the temple of today be it of any religion may end up with control freaks. They make some who go to a temple for some peace freak out.
Control freaks are unfortunately those who don't know what a temple saint stands for. Any saint would expect followers to go for peace. Subdue the ego and the need to be control freaks.
Be at peace with others and with life. Don't end up going to a temple to control it. This is exactly what a temple should not encourage.
But blame not the saint of a temple if a clique of members are doing that. If they do, they know not the saint and put the saint away in the background. They place themselves in front of the saint and claim they are the new subcontractors to till the land. They are like insects coming to a flower for nectar. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 did say.
Many a temple end up with this problem due to lack of doctrine. When people are not doctrine-driven but ego-driven, their egos are bigger than any big image of the saint of the temple. The big image of their egos take over the image of the temple saint
Men should not end up nearer to their egos and far from the doctrine the saint stands for. No point then of having the image of the saint in a temple.
If men are far from doctrine, they are far from the saint. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 reiterates that the image of a temple saint is the doctrine and the doctrine is the image. Men must see the doctrine, not just the image.
Men who see not the doctrine may end up not only not devoted to the saint but devoted to their egos. They see only their egos and the need to be control freaks to meet ego needs.
They end up putting lip service to mission and doctrine. Control freaks defeat the mission of a temple and want people to worship their egos instead of the saint of the temple.
Control freaks ignore views of the many and end up doing what they wish. They end up not only breaking the laws of Heaven but also the laws of the land. They end up reaping what they sow.
Control freaks can demonise a temple in any religion. Is this the fate of the temple you go to? God-willing, this should never be. But blame not the flower for insects coming to it. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says.
It is not about doing in a temple what we have been doing outside a temple. It is about creating peace by not feeding the needs of the ego and have no peace. It is not about controlling a temple so that others cannot have a say.
But the temple of today be it of any religion may end up with control freaks. They make some who go to a temple for some peace freak out.
Control freaks are unfortunately those who don't know what a temple saint stands for. Any saint would expect followers to go for peace. Subdue the ego and the need to be control freaks.
Be at peace with others and with life. Don't end up going to a temple to control it. This is exactly what a temple should not encourage.
But blame not the saint of a temple if a clique of members are doing that. If they do, they know not the saint and put the saint away in the background. They place themselves in front of the saint and claim they are the new subcontractors to till the land. They are like insects coming to a flower for nectar. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 did say.
Many a temple end up with this problem due to lack of doctrine. When people are not doctrine-driven but ego-driven, their egos are bigger than any big image of the saint of the temple. The big image of their egos take over the image of the temple saint
Men should not end up nearer to their egos and far from the doctrine the saint stands for. No point then of having the image of the saint in a temple.
If men are far from doctrine, they are far from the saint. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 reiterates that the image of a temple saint is the doctrine and the doctrine is the image. Men must see the doctrine, not just the image.
Men who see not the doctrine may end up not only not devoted to the saint but devoted to their egos. They see only their egos and the need to be control freaks to meet ego needs.
They end up putting lip service to mission and doctrine. Control freaks defeat the mission of a temple and want people to worship their egos instead of the saint of the temple.
Control freaks ignore views of the many and end up doing what they wish. They end up not only breaking the laws of Heaven but also the laws of the land. They end up reaping what they sow.
Control freaks can demonise a temple in any religion. Is this the fate of the temple you go to? God-willing, this should never be. But blame not the flower for insects coming to it. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says.
